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| From | garypig@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: RRHOF |
| Date | Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:54:46 -0500 |
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http://www.roctober.com/roctober/boone2.html
<< Before reading the stuff at the link, I'd have likely said 'no'.
But like
all polls, some of the answer is in the way the question is asked. And
the
answers, personal opinions, are colored by each individual's knowledge
and
experience. >>
Yes indeed, Joe !
I revisit this link every year 'round this time
when that silly Hall of Fame again rears its head.
The most fascinating thing to me
about that incredibly unscientific Pat Boone poll
is that the majority of people who knew and/or worked
either with Pat in the Fifties,
or were fellow recording artists/contemporaries of his,
usually continue to praise Boone's merits.
But it seems the younger the subject we questioned,
the less informed (with Pat and pre-Beatle rock in general)
and (as a result?) the more negative the responses were,
and of the knee-jerk variety more often that not.
There's a lesson to be learned here,
somewhere....
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